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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What pamphlet written by Karl Marx claims the modern world positively requires uncertainty and disturbance?
(a) The Problem of Other Minds.
(b) Mein Kampf.
(c) The Communist Manifesto.
(d) The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

2. The scientific formula led to breakthroughs in disciplines such as astronomy, physics, and medicine, but it could not deal with what issues?
(a) Free will.
(b) Questions of value and meaning.
(c) Social trends.
(d) Religious observance.

3. What does Harari call the nemesis of the modern economy?
(a) Unemployment.
(b) Out-dated religious beliefs.
(c) Ecological collapse.
(d) Socialist Humanism.

4. What is the new species that will develop when Homo Sapiens is extinct?
(a) Homogeneous.
(b) Homo Deus.
(c) Homo Erectus.
(d) Superhumans.

5. What is the title of Jorge Luis Borges' story about the narrating self?
(a) Quixote's Problem.
(b) The Options.
(c) The Quixote Fantasy.
(d) A Problem.

6. Humanism is divided into which three branches?
(a) Economic, Scientific, Liberal.
(b) Liberal, Socialist, Economic.
(c) Liberal, Socialist, Evolutionary.
(d) Socialist, Economic, Scientific.

7. Why were animal rights activists concerned about the robo-rat experiments?
(a) They always protest animal experiments.
(b) They believed the experiments were a waste of time.
(c) They were concerned the rats would be permanently damaged.
(d) They were concerned that the rats were suffering.

8. According to Harari, what two things are being decoupled?
(a) Intelligence and value.
(b) Intelligence and consciousness.
(c) Free will and consciousness.
(d) Free will and determinism.

9. How are scientists able to predict a person's desires and decisions?
(a) By learning about a person's past experiences.
(b) By using brain scanners.
(c) By determining personality traits.
(d) By reading facial expressions.

10. What biometric information did Angelina Jolie use before having a double mastectomy?
(a) An fMRI.
(b) A full-body scan.
(c) A blood screening panel.
(d) Genetic testing.

11. What revolutionary strategy did Oakland Athletics manager Billy Beane use to select the best baseball players?
(a) He posted information on Twitter.
(b) He hacked the competition's database.
(c) He developed the system of player statistics.
(d) He used a computer algorithm developed by economists.

12. Harari claims that "life has no script, no playwright, no director, no producer, and ____________."
(a) No free will.
(b) No power.
(c) No reality.
(d) No meaning.

13. How did scientists increase their knowledge of the relationship between the two hemispheres of the brain?
(a) Stimulating the brain's hemispheres with electrodes.
(b) Experiments with epilepsy patients.
(c) Experiments with soldiers with PTSD.
(d) Experiments involving people with head injuries.

14. What did premodern humans believe their lives gained for giving up power?
(a) Meaning.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Protection.
(d) Simplicity.

15. What is the danger humans face as intelligence and consciousness are uncoupled?
(a) Losing their economic value.
(b) Losing their freedom of speech.
(c) Being replaced by androids.
(d) Taking drugs due to boredom.

Short Answer Questions

1. Humanism claims that instead of looking to a supreme being or authority to define meaning, people should rely on _______.

2. What group of individuals are being held responsible for the potential reversal of the humanist revolution?

3. Harari claims that humans are not individuals they are _________.

4. According to Harai, where is the most interesting place in the world from a religious standpoint?

5. What is Watson being trained to do to help the medical field?

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